Author Paula Wiseman is a former research chemist at Ashland Petroleum who turned to full-time writing after her first child was born. Her popular series of Christian-themed novels has consistently topped Amazon’s Hot New Releases list for Christian Fiction, and have won several awards for indie writers. Book 1, Contingency, tops today’s Buffet.The book and its sequels are for folks who enjoy character-driven family relationship stories with strong Christian themes, Paula told me yesterday.

“The characters wrestle with taking abstract faith issues like forgiveness and applying them to the host of challenges life deals us,” she said. “Most of my readers are women, but I do have some very enthusiastic male readers.”

A native of Ashland, Kentucky, Paula now lives in Robinson, Illinois, with her husband Jon (a safety engineer by day, and seminary student by night) and two daughters and son. She’s been writing since she was 11 years old, but was unpublished until she sold a children’s story to Highlights Magazine several years ago. At that point, she began to consider writing as a career, and began work on Contingency. In the meantime, she had several devotional pieces published in Cup of Comfort books and one in a Tyndale collection called Life Savors for Women.

She writes in the afternoon, using a jumbled outline with color-codes, circles, arrows and scribbles she uses after the story has taken shape.

“I’m not sure if the plotting and planning process ever stops, though,” Paula said. “I’ve gone back and made changes after an early-morning epiphany more than once. I have a few good friends who read for me and help me pound out the story in the early stages.”

Even though her former technical career might seem disconnected from fiction writing, Paula believes that the problem-solving and analytical skills she honed as a chemist have been great assets for writing, especially during the editing phase.

Paula believes she’s timed her writing career perfectly by publishing her indie books just as the eBook market exploded. “Another thing we did was to include a preview for the second book in the back of the first book, and then we released Indemnity just four months after Contingency. I think those moves helped us build a brand and following quickly.”

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Bobbi Molinsky’s comfortable life is shattered when a forwarded email from her husband’s account lands in her inbox. The email teases, “My whole evening is free again.”

After an angry confrontation with Chuck, she is left with the broken remains of an eighteen-year marriage. Where is God?

Bobbi agrees forgiving Chuck is the right thing, the God-honoring thing to do, but it leaves her empty and isolated. Teaching her second-graders is a burden. Taking care of her boys saps all her energy. It seems God Himself has walked away, leaving her to struggle alone.

Is God faithful? Bobbi can’t deny the transformation in Chuck, but genuine forgiveness requires trust, and trust is a risk she’s not willing to take. Can she let go of her deepest, most primal fears and save her marriage?

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Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit at age 18, Luke Nolan has spent his adult life on Death Row. The night of his execution brings Sofie, a beautiful young doctor who will pronounce him dead, and a benevolent priest to his side. When a freak explosion throws him back to another century along with Sofie, who has lost her memory, he sees a chance for a future in the past–Another Dawn he was never meant to see.

As long as Sofie never remembers who he is, of course–or does it really matter a century in the past? Even as his feelings for her grow even stronger than his need to protect her in this strange world. A man with no future and a woman with no past.

After a posting to the northern provinces, Akitada hurries to the deathbed of his mother in the capital. On the road, he spends the night in a monastery where he sees a painted hell screen. The realistic depictions of tortured men, women, and children haunt his dreams until he wakes to a scream.

At home, he finds his mother sick and vindictive, and his sisters troubled by personal dilemmas. He is asked to clear his brother-in-law’s name in a theft, and his younger sister’s lover of a murder charge. The scream in monastery turns out to be a clue in the murder case, and the hell screen sends him on an investigation of unspeakable crimes in the city.

This is the first novel to in the acclaimed Madeline Carter series, now available for Kindle.

When her best friend is killed in front of her at the New York City brokerage where they both work, Madeline Carter quits her job and aims for a safer life on the warm coast. But life has a way of interrupting the best laid plans and it isn’t long before Madeline’s quiet new life of day trading in the Malibu hills is interrupted by kidnapping, murder and a run-in with a corporate psychopath.

Explore the process of emotional healing and renewal of spirit through the familiar analogy of housekeeping: cleaning, organizing, and “airing out” our lives, room by room, task by task.

This book combines how-to, self-help, and spiritual genres to help you detach from the Culture of Chaos and embrace a life of balance. With this inner harmony and balance, you can create a meaningful, authentic reality.

Tessa Von Hellengaard is a real witch. Magical spells aside, she’s snarky and selfish, and the other witches in her silent spell coven are fed up with her. Their plan to reform Tessa involves taking away her magic, saddling her with one hundred extra pounds, and sending her to a weight loss spa. For good measure they call in Liam Kennedy, a charming and sexy fairy godfather, to teach her some manners.

Desperate to regain her magic and determined to shed the weight, Tessa soon realizes that protecting her heart from Liam will prove to be her greatest challenge.

Evernote is an app –a virtual filing cabinet available for the Kindle Fire and other computing devices. This book shows you the practical applications of Evernote, whether you are:

A student struggling with reams of lecture notes, references, and recordings of talks

A journalist who needs to compile ideas, log interviews, and communicate on the move

A busy individual who wants to keep and share photos, store business cards and notes…

This book shows you how to navigate and enhance your experience of this wonderful tool in just two hours. Start slicing through the multi-layered functions and possibilities of Evernote, and discover the tool that will change the way you remember things forever.

Part II of the adventures of two unorthodox 19th-century U.S. Marshals. Includes the novella Origin of White Deer where the outlaw marshal leaves his Arapaho home as a teen to find his roots in the lawless town of Cheyenne, Wyoming. These noir tales infuse the Western genre with a fresh perspective on topics like race relations and social justice while still delivering pulse-racing action in the tradition of Wanted: Dead or Alive and Gunsmoke.

Wesley Bates thinks his life pretty much sucks. He’s landed at the bottom of his school’s popularity ladder, and bully Randy Stanford seems to be waiting around every corner.

The troubled teen thinks he’s found a way to escape his real-world problems when he stumbles upon strange doorways in Astoria’s local library that seem to lead into the extraordinary worlds from all his favorite books. Oz, Neverland, Wonderland — they’re all a reality with Wesley’s new discovery. Wesley teams with best friend Taylor Williams to embark on a great adventure, both ready to leave the drama of middle school behind.

But the two kids quickly find themselves embroiled in a centuries-old battle for the library and the magic hiding within. Now, fighting alongside the eccentric old man who’s vowed to protect the building’s power, the pair must help ward off an attack by a shadowy group with a strange tie to Wesley’s nemesis, forcing Wesley to face the fears he’s been dodging… and one of the most terrifying bullies of all time!

Yesterday, Taylor and Wes turned a boring field trip to their local library into a grand adventure when they found a mysterious portal leading into the fabled Land of Oz.

But that was yesterday.

Today they’ve learned their actions have had grave consequences. Not only did they alter the Oz mythos, but their deeds may have had unexplained repercussions in the real world as well. Taylor’s returned home to find she’s living a life that isn’t her own. Nothing’s as she left it. Her normally warm father has become cold and distant. Her grades have fallen overnight. Teachers who once saw her as their favorite student, now consider her their most problematic pupil. Only Wesley remembers Taylor as she truly is, and together, he and Tay return to Oz hoping they can undo the damage and restore both worlds to the way they were.

Fifteen-year-old Albert has just received an invitation that could transform his disappointing life completely – a chance to belong to an advanced and hidden society that only reveals itself to a select few.

Immersed in a new world of mind-boggling technology and intriguing peers, Albert will overcome his fears enough to ignore a few suspicious details. But soon he’ll find his family dragged to the center of a scandal that threatens to tear them apart and erase their very identities.

A conflicted Albert must find the strength to challenge authority by relying on his newfound allies and gift for Revelation.

Two years ago a woman was brutally murdered, her body burned until only ash and shattered bone remained. Police Sergeant Valerie Ryker solved that case, putting psychopath Dixon Hess in prison for life, and becoming the first female police chief of her tiny Wisconsin town.

Then the original murder victim turns up in a frozen lake, all in one piece and only recently dead, and Val must enter a race against time. In only forty-eight hours, Hess will be set free, and he wants payback. And Val, her town, and everyone she loves are at the top of his list.

Which is why in 1977 Elvis faked his own death and endured massive facial reconstruction surgery, and disappeared from the limelight to live a normal life as the unassuming Aaron King. Unfortunately, leaving fame behind also meant leaving his fortune behind, too, and now Elvis finds himself broke and living in near poverty in a small apartment in Los Angeles. Luckily for him, it turns out he’s a pretty good private investigator.

Now in his seventies and contemplating a return to music (discreetly, of course), Elvis is hired to solve a baffling missing person case. The King digs deeper, and soon finds himself surrounded by the seedier elements of Los Angeles, from nefarious Hollywood producers who prey upon the young, to twin brothers with a very dark secret.

And as Elvis pieces the bizarre puzzle together, he slowly makes his singing comeback—and will be reunited on stage with someone even the King himself never dreamed possible.

Decades ago, the CIA developed the technology to enter our dreams and extract information. It was just a matter of time before they took things a little too far…
1980. Hector Lopez joins a CIA enterprise capable of entering dreams and extracting information. Lopez saves hundreds of hostages’ lives by dream-linking to terrorists and foiling their plans. When the Red Brigades, an Italian terrorist group, kidnaps a US General, Lopez and his team execute every technique available for extracting information–including one that links our world to a dimension never meant to be discovered.

Framed for murdering his family, South African journalist Robert Dell’s only ally is his oldest enemy: his father, an ex-CIA hitman with one last shot at redemption. Hunting the real killer, father and son take a bloody road trip into the heart of darkness, uncovering a conspiracy reaching to the highest levels of the state.

In a thrill-a-minute read, author Paul McKellips poses a frightening “what if” scenario that will leave the human race on the brink of certain disaster. When a series of attacks on animal researchers leave several people dead, the government—including the President—issues an immediate ban on animal testing. And that’s when the real trouble begins…

A tropical island paradise with a seedy secret becomes a life-and-death nightmare. Already reeling from a rash of maritime disasters, a war and international intrigue, Madeleine Nesbitt and Peter Duncan are destined for even darker days when they investigate the man with no conscience behind the world’s most profitable enterprise. They find a sea of corruption, deception and lies.

Must. Have. Wine. It’s a modern moms’ mantra, no matter what type of day we’re having; when we’ve come to the end of our rope, had the best day ever, or simply just want to unwind. If you’re looking for a reason to pour that glass of wine tonight, we’ve got 81 reasons you should.

Always feeling guilty about something you did or didn’t do? “Guilt Will Always Be There, Let Love Triumph” is the story for you! See Reason #4

Tired of your hubby putting the moves on you when all you need is another hour of sleep? Been there! You must read “Midnight Lovin’!” See Reason #58

Together, let’s raise our glasses to toast the laughter, the tears, and this zaniness we call motherhood.

Waffles and Pancakes are two hamsters, from the same pet store, that went to their new homes on the same day. They also happen to be the best of friends. In their first adventure, their owners became best friends, too. Together the four learned the lesson of true friendship. Now Waffles and Pancakes, along with their owners, are about to learn another lesson, A Lesson in Bullying.

Adam is desperate for a son, but after ten years of marriage he and his wife Asabe remain childless. Despite the obvious heartbreak this causes Asabe, Adam marries a second wife, the very young and beautiful Fatima. Double tragedy prevents the realization of Adam’s hope and Asabe stands firm with her husband to gather the broken pieces of their life. But Adam isn’t prepared to count his loses. He compounds their difficulties by marrying the cunning and deceptive divorcee, Sauda. Neglected and living in the shadow of Adam’s desires, Asabe yet again proves her worth as the true bedrock in his life.

Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we all have challenges that need healing for us to live our ideal lives. Core Transformation offers a simple process that empowers readers to experience healing and lasting change.

The night before their wedding, Nicolo Covelli’s fiancé disappeared without a trace. He grieved for her until the day he died.

115 years later, Rachel Delacourte is suddenly plagued with nightmares where she is entombed alive. But it’s not just the nightmares that compel her to seek help from the Covelli sleep clinic, it’s the errotic dreams that follow and the disturbing feeling that the man in her dreams is real.

Healing is not an end but a process… a process we can choose to celebrate. This book is designed as a training manual for a fluid way of being the encourages not only healing but thriving. I draw on cutting edge science, ancient spiritual traditions, and, perhaps most importantly, my own life experience.

Silas Ainsley is desperately searching for the Gatekeeper, but the relentless Stühocs are attacking villages, and an assassin is tracking his every move, making it impossible to find the one with all the answers about who he really is. Meanwhile, after learning that the Dunarian Council has been compromised, Julian Hobbes scours Marenon for the truth about how deep their corruption runs, but the truth will cost innocent lives.

In 1920’s Kansas, the mangled body of champion buggy racer Tommy Donnan has been discovered tangled up underneath his carriage, dragged to his death by his own horse. His twelve-year-old sister, Millie, does not believe his death was an accident. She wants to know the truth behind the night Tommy died. But with her mother given over to grief, her father to fate, and her only surviving brother a shell of himself since returning from The Great War, Millie will have to seek this truth alone.

Enter Charlie Sterno: the grim, glum, hard-drinking Pinkerton detective with a nose for murder. He lets himself get too close to Millie, so close that finding her brother’s killer becomes personal.

FBI Special Agent Allison Lewis uses her psychic abilities, along with her identical twin sister Madison, to zero in on Jake Tansey, a psychopathic killer. Jake flees to Mexico, then returns to the United States to eliminate the twins. The three end up in Sedona, AZ where the girls confront the killer. A historical subplot revolves around Pearl whose family is murdered in 1875 on a wagon trail in the Colorado Territory. Pearl, the lone survivor at fifteen, must learn to rely on her intuition and intelligence to out-wit human predators, and the harsh conditions of the old West.

Dan Willis is unemployed and desperate when he is recruited by The Factory. Trained to hunt down and kill insurgents hellbent on destroying the country, Willis methodically and efficiently performs his job. But there’s a dark secret behind The Factory, and when Willis discovers it no one is safe…

Told with frankness and humor, this story the everyman’s (or woman’s) Lance Armstrong story. It’s one woman’s wild journey from unraveling a medical mystery that took nine years to solve, to navigating the science and art of medicine in search of the right treatments, to finally awakening to a healthier, more balanced life — with cancer.

Just as millions of people live healthy lives with chronic diseases like diabetes and even HIV, Tracy Krulik shares how she learned to do the same in her fight against cancer — using her bike and a plant-based diet as weapons.

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